Show TWENTYSIX TWENTY SIX YEARS OLD the thinks it to ie not much addicted to the weakness of expecting presents or compliments upon every trivial occasion where they might be considered tie deserved served nor to la it fond ot 0 the too common practice of gushing guething sloppily over others at every provocation at uie same game time it recognizes recognize that there are times and anui verg a ries 1 that mt merett least a passing men mention t 1 0 D and lauch euch observance as comes calling to mi d the ori original giDal event whose recurrence currence rf marks a re letter latter day to la life alfeo ld busy buey calendar such buch an occasion caBlon oc te Is tola this the of november twenty six years ago tonight the farat issue of the DESERET EVENING was delivered tu to its subscribers all told the latter did aid not then number many more than are now BOW listed in almost any onu ono block oi the city the paper was away in advance of its constituency or support and a perusal of 0 its earliest pages shown the high standard 0 01 clean earnest journalism which the first 0 oil altor tor Preel dent ut ceorge Q cannon set for himself aud staff and which his successors have not been and teed need not te e ashamed to emulate we may say without vanity that over ever since the beginning it has baa tried to lead I 1 rather limm follow the profession process iop ot 01 progress and abat it him has always aiwas a sought to bevre belat worthily abd creditably the be com 1 inanity eunit that supported it those are till still it ila alma aims and ambitions now fairly started on its ito second quarter of a century of existence it fools feels far irom from oppressed with the weight of years jean though conscious olous of the dignity of ev r age it ought to be in its prime and capable of as much and aad as good of service ervice to the people as ever it was wae we hope it is ie for we have no other wish than to conduct it in the line of honest courageous truthful news gathering and news giving maintained by it during all these theme years yearn to the end that righteousness righteous and respectability may rejoice in its championship anu ano knavery and evil doing may tremble at its it very name dame |